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Recommended Approaches for the Evaluation of Testicular and Epididymal Toxicity
Lynda L. Lanning
BioReliance Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, 20850
Dianne M. Creasy
Huntingdon Life Sciences, East Millstone, New Jersey 08875
Robert E. Chapin
Pfizer Inc, Groton, Connecticut 06340
Peter C. Mann
Experimental Pathology Laboratory NorthEast, Galena, Maryland 21635
Norman J. Barlow
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
Karen S. Regan
Regan Path/Tox Services, Ashland, Ohio 44805
Dawn G. Goodman
Covance Laboratories Inc, Vienna, Virginia 22182
Key Words: Testis evaluation • fixation • histomorphology • methods • histopathology.
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Toxicologic Pathology, Vol. 30, No. 4,
507-520 (2002)
DOI: 10.1080/01926230290105695
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